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Mahabharata

Attribution
retold by William Buck ; introduction by B.A. van Nooten ; illustrated by Shirley Triest
Publication Details
Book, University of California Press, 2000
Availability
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Description
Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, two Sanskrit verse epics written some 2,000 years ago. In Ramayana (written by a poet known to us as Valmiki), William Buck has retold the story of Prince Rama–with all its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evil–in a length and manner that will make the great Indian epics accessible to the contemporary reader. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Authors
- Buck, William
- Triest, Shirley
Subject
- Mythology, Hindu — Fiction
- Krishna (Hindu deity) — Fiction
Notes
- This translation originally published: 1973
- "Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Mahabharata, a Sanskrit verse epic written some 2,000 years ago. The Mahabharata is probably the largest Indian epic ever composed. It is the story of dynastic struggle, between the Kurus and Pandavas for land. In his introduction, sanskritist B. A. Nooten notes "Apart from William Buck’s rendition [no other English version has] been able to capture the blend of religion and martial spirit that pervades the original epic.""– BOOK JACKET
- Translated from the Sanskrit
ISBN
- 0520227042